Geometry rotation/merge problem in three v125+

Questions
1

So I have a function which creates a cross with 3 geometries, each rotated by 90deg, it works fine in versions 124<, but in 125+ rotation not works, or merge doesn’t work, idk, whats wrong with my code?

const crossMesh = (cubeSize, material) => {
  const geometry = new THREE.BoxGeometry(...cubeSize);

  const cube = new THREE.Mesh(geometry, material);
  cube.rotateX(Math.PI / 2);
  cube.updateMatrix();
  const geometry1 = geometry;
  geometry1.merge(cube.geometry, cube.matrix);

  const cube2 = new THREE.Mesh(geometry1, material);
  cube2.rotateZ(Math.PI / 2);
  const geometry2 = geometry;
  cube2.updateMatrix();
  geometry2.merge(cube2.geometry, cube2.matrix);

  const cube3 = new THREE.Mesh(geometry2, material);
  return cube3;
};

https://jsfiddle.net/eL98kahz/

2

THREE.Geometry was removed in r125 and replaced with BufferGeometry. See THREE.Geometry will be removed from core with r125.

3

But I don’t use THREE.Geometry, code use THREE.BoxGeometry and it creates needed geometry but without rotation aplied to it.

4

THREE.BoxGeometry was based on THREE.Geometry before r125. Now it is based on BufferGeometry. If you look at the docs for BufferGeometry you’ll see that merge does not take a transform matrix as the second argument:

https://threejs.org/docs/?q=Bufferg#api/en/core/BufferGeometry.merge